Disruption with some GitHub services
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Overview
On February 16th, 2025 from 11:30 UTC to 12:44 UTC, API requests to GitHub.com experienced increased latency and failures. This incident affected: Git Operations, Webhooks, API Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, and Codespaces.
Impact
Around 1% of API requests failed at the peak of this incident.
Trigger
experimental feature that malfunctioned and generated excessive database latency
Detection
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Codespaces, Git Operations, Issues and Webhooks
Resolution
The feature has been redesigned to avoid database load which should prevent similar issues going forward.
Root Cause
This outage was caused by an experimental feature that malfunctioned and generated excessive database latency.